Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Getting Cold Feet?

I don't know about you, but one of the things I've hankered after with my scrapping is to be asked to work on a Design Team. It's one way of being acknowledged for your scrapping ... my family love my pages, my scrapping friends like them and everyone else ... thinks I'm a bit mad to spend so much time and effort turning one or two 6x4 photos into a 12x12 page in an album! So the extra validation of "working" at the hobby I love has always been attractive.

I've done the odd guest post here and there and been on the creative team at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog for a year now - all great ways of using up my supplies, but the thought of getting free modern stash to work with (I'm a bargain hunter when I shop and rarely get current products) plus somewhere special to show off is still a draw. I was delighted, therefore, to be successful when on-line shop A Trip Down Memory Lane put out a guest designer call on their blog last year ... I waited patiently for my turn and then all of a sudden they sent me some Echo Park papers and stickers to work with. Of course no sooner had the pizza box of goodies arrived, than I ran out of ink for the printer and couldn't print any photos!!! At moments like that you begin to question the need for public recognition ... I was having second third thoughts about over-committing and under-preparing myself by the time the ink cartridges arrived a week later!

ATDML's March gallery has just gone "live" here and 4 of the 5 pages I made are in there along with lots of other great Echo Park projects from the regular designers for ATDML. I loved working with the double-sided papers - if one side was no good for a particular photo, you could make the reverse work instead.

This is my final page of the five, using up all the scraps from the kit with a sheet of black card and a few chipboard alphas that I added. And here's a sneak of the double page spread I made for the gallery too:

My thanks to Mel and Jill for a chance to try out Echo Park papers, I think I'll be keeping an eye out for them in the future!

Yay, congratulations to you! They are great pages - I especially like the double page about Parc Guell in Barcelona. The colours are so zingy and fun - and I really like how you arranged the photos. Will you get another "go", or do you need to look for other Teams to join, now that you've had such a success with this one?

(typical about the printer ink. My print head decided to conk out mid-print a couple of weeks ago. Just when I was in the middle of an urgent commission, which needed some pretty text printing onto the label... grrr... Managed to find a supplier who would send me a new one in 24 hours!!)

Well done hunny on being picked, very well deserved. I too have done the longing for the DT place of recognition, have kinda given up on it now as the constant rejections were getting me down a bit. You guys give me lovely support though :-)xx

Congrats on your spot! Looks like you made some great projects with the EP papers (Lurve EP!). I'll have to pop over and check out the gallery - I've shopped there a few times and was always happy with their inspiration.

Love that brakes photo and story - made me laugh. The sneak peek is tempting too.

Congratulations on the DT work - it is fun. I've been published a couple of times (in now defunct mags) but only did a DT a couple of times before realizing that my slightly frantic life isn't a good combo. Always impressed by anyone who can manage it!